Perseverance Beats Its Own Mars Driving Record as AutoNav Autonomy Pays Off
NASA’s Perseverance rover has rewritten its own record book again. On 12 October 2026 the six-wheeled explorer completed the longest self-planned drive of a single Martian day in its mission, days after its odometer overtook every other vehicle humanity has operated on another world. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory says the run beat the rover’s previous … Read more